"He realized his views didn't necessarily represent the views of all customers, restaurant owners and employees and didn't want to distract them from providing a great restaurant experience." the company said.

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Does anyone else get the sense that Cathy's like that elderly relative that says terrible things at dinner and just makes the entire family uncomfortable?

Im a bit confused... looks like he posted it from his personal twitter account.... There are plenty of people who post their personal opinions no matter how moronic the opinion may be. How is this comment in anyway affiliated with CFA... is this comment here considered to be a representation of the multi billion dollar international company i work for?

Good point. So let me ask you this... If Barack Obama tweeted something from his personal Twitter account and not from the official POTUS Twitter account, would you view it as the tweet of a private citizen who should be allowed to say anything he wants, or would you see it was Obama and immediately think, "Oh, President of the United States thinks _____" (fill in the blank with the hypothetical tweet).

The truth of the matter is -- if you are a public figure and are associated with a particular office, organization, company, etc., then your personal views will be associated with that office, organization, company, whether you like it or not. If Tom Brady tweets some racial slur, it will inevitably be linked to the New England Patriots. If Bill Gates tweets some homophobic comment, it will inevitably be linked to Microsoft. And Dan Cathy IS Chick-fil-A ... whether he likes it or not.

I can and do fault him for taking a stand against equality. It can be couched as a personal, moral, religious or whatnot "belief", but in the end what he is saying is "You are not my equal. You are beneath me and I expect you to be treated as such. Just like it's always been."